16 npm annual report 2016 / activities mentation of the Convention. The statement was part of the Committee’s consideration of the seventh periodic report of Finland. The delegation of the Finnish NPM, led by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, also met the CAT in a private meeting held in Geneva in November 2016. The delegation stayed for another day to hear the questions that the Committee’s rapporteurs addressed to the State of Finland regarding its periodic report. Many of the issues raised were discussed in the NPM’s statement to the Committee. Before the meeting with the CAT, the representatives of the NPM visited the office of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and met its Chief of Operations Barbara Bernath and other staff. The parties discussed, among other things, the Finnish NPM’s statement to the CAT, which the representatives of APT had already familiarised themselves with. The NPM’s report on 2015, its first year of operation, was submitted for information to the CAT and its Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT). In November 2016, the SPT addressed a few comments and questions to the NPM on the annual re- On the second day of their meeting (5 October 2016), Baltic and Nordic ombudsmen focused on the activities of national preventive mechanisms. port. Overall, the SPT considered the annual report to be of good quality and illustrative. The NPM will send its reply to the SPT during the first part of 2017. In December 2016, the coordinators of the NPM met SPT member Mari Amos, who is the subcommittee’s rapporteur for Finland. The parties discussed, among other things, the resources of the NPM and touched upon some of the issues that the SPT had asked about. In November 2016, the Nordic ombudsmen adopted a joint Nordic letter addressed to the subcommittee. The letter was signed by the ombudsmen of Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Sweden. In the letter, the ombudsmen expressed their critical view on plans to establish the NPM Observatory, an NGO monitoring the national preventive mechanisms.